in support of Tierrasanta Village of San Diego

Event Details

**6:15-6:30 pm refreshments and Tierrasanta Village pre-talk community social

About the Event

Are you looking for your next great read or the next book to recommend for your book club? Since 1994, the San Diego Book Award Association nominates and honors the best published books and unpublished manuscripts by San Diego County residents each year. The SDBAA is dedicated to enriching the large, diverse, and vibrant literary community, and carefully selects their honorees each year with this goal in mind.
Join us for a Tierrasanta Talks San Diego Best Book Award Panel with three winners of the prestigious Theodor S. Geisel Award: J. Dylan Yates (2015), Layla Fiske (2014), and Lee Fullbright (2013). Come and hear these three incredible authors discuss their books, the writing process, and the inspiration that led them to create their powerful, life changing works of fiction. By the time you leave this Adventure you will likely not only know the next book on your reading list, but rather the next three

About the Authors & Books

J. Dylan Yates debut novel, The Belief in Angels, was written over the course of many years while she attempted a number of BFA-related jobs, including: waitressing, teaching, corporate training, real estate, nursing, interior design, directing, acting, producing, parenting, library science and reluctant housewifery. She lives in Boulder County, Colorado.

In The Belief in Angels, growing up in her parents’ crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules’s imaginative sense of humor is the weapon she wields to dodge household chaos. But somewhere between routine discipline with horsewhips, gun-waving gambling debt collectors, and LSD-laced breakfast cereal adventures, tragedy strikes with the death of her younger brother—a blow from which Jules may never fully recover. Jules’ story alternates with that of her Grandfather Samuel, a man with a sad story of his own. Samuel, once called Szaja, is an orthodox Jew who lived through the murderous Ukranian pogroms of the 1920s and the Majdanek Death Camp—but whose survival came at a price that’s haunted him for years.

Award winning author Layla Fiske was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Southern California. The daughter and granddaughter of immigrants, she was raised with the rich culture, language and foods of the Middle East. A graduate of San Diego State University, she completed a career in the field of land use management while raising two children. Now the grandmother of two, she lives in San Diego with her husband.
The Fig Orchard begins in an isolated, tradition-bound village high above the Jordan River, balancing delicately amidst age-old superstitions and religious orthodoxy, Nisrina Huniah, a fifteen-year-old girl, is torn between innocent imaginings and looming apprehensions as she marries a man she has never met – only to fall in love on the night they are wed. Her joy, short-lived, takes a heart-wrenching turn when the encroaching World War fiercely shatters her reality, propelling her on an unexpected journey where she develops unlikely friendships that ultimately alter her perception of herself and the world around her.
Lee Fullbrightlives in San Diego, CA, on beautiful Point Loma, with her Australian cattle dog, Baby Rae. Her historical psychological-suspense novel, The Angry Woman Suite, a Kirkus Critics’ Pick, won a Discovery Award, a Royal Dragonfly H.M., and the San Diego Book Award for Best Mystery, as well as the SD Geisel Award for "best of the best."

In The Angry Woman Suite, Francis Grayson, raised in a crumbling New England mansion by four women with personalities as split as a cracked mirror, has an obsessive need to fix them all. There's his mother, distant and beautiful Magdalene; his disfigured, suffocating Aunt Stella; his odious grandmother; and the bane of his existence, his abusive and delusional Aunt Lothian. For years, Francis plays a tricky game of duck and cover with the women, turning to music to stay sane. He finds a friend and mentor in Aidan Madsen, schoolmaster, local Revolutionary War historian, musician and keeper of the Grayson women's darkest secrets. In a skillful move by Fullbright, those secrets are revealed through the viewpoints of three different people-Aidan, Francis and Francis' stepdaughter, Elyse-adding layers of eloquent complexity to a story as powerful as it is troubling.

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Please note that no physical tickets will be issued. Due to the special nature of this event, no refunds are available after April 18, 2016, or for no-shows. Only books pre-purchased below or at the event will be eligible for signing. Tickets are available at the door by cash, or call (300) 619-2532 to register now.
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